Free Access to Iowa Online Newspapers

BY BARBARA BUTCHER

The online collection of newspapers made available by Advantage Archives (formerly Advantage Preservation) company continues to grow. Advantage Archives has contracted with several hundred libraries and other institutions across the United States to digitize and host their online newspaper collections. The March 18, 2019 update totals 598 collections from forty-one states and a total number of pages exceeding sixty million.

Here is a list from Iowa of the online collections available for free. (Other states are also listed and accessible there.) Page count is in parentheses. Following information from “The Ancestor Hunt” website at http://www.theancestorhunt.com/ . Once on their Home Page, look for and click on the article “60 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available From Advantage Archives.” Then a click on the provider will take you to that area’s website where you can quickly see what towns and publications are included.

Allamakee – Postville Public Library (80,273)

Appanoose – Centerville Iowegian (376,842)

Benton – Baseball Museum of Norway (13,404)

Benton – Belle Plaine Community Library (111,135)

Benton – Blairstown Public Library (48,999)

Benton – Schroeder Public Library (9,524)

Benton – Vinton Public Library & the Benton

County Historical Society (268,090)

Black Hawk – La Porte City (14,504)

Bremer – Sumner Public Library (87,928)

Bremer – Waverly Public Library (54,390)

Buchanan – Jesup Public Library (54,926)

Buena Vista – Albert City Historical Society

(28,626)

Buena Vista – Buena Vista University (15,907)

Buena Vista – Marathon Public Library (14,387)

Buena Vista – Newell Public Library (117,663)

Buena Vista – Sioux Rapids Public Library (52,731)

Buena Vista – Storm Lake Public Library (284,250)

Butler – Aplington Legion Memorial Library

(10,543)

Butler – Clarksville Public Library (78,898)

Butler – Greene Public Library (64,895)

Butler – Kothe Memorial Library (64,392)

Carroll – Carroll Public Library (536,559)

Carroll – Coon Rapids Public Library (85,843)

Cass – Cass County Genealogical Society (138,656)

Cass – Griswold Public Library (72,607)

Cedar – West Branch Public Library (19,406)

Cerro Gordo – Clear Lake (26,390)

Cherokee – Aurelia Public Library (47,813)

Cherokee – Cherokee Public Library (354,769)

Cherokee – Marcus Public Library (41,255)

Chickasaw – New Hampton Public Library

(201,619)

Clarke – Oseola Public Library (118,486)

Clay – Kirchner French Public Library (42,855)

Clay – Spencer Public Library (48,758)

Clayton – Elkader Public Library (118,209)

Clayton – Garnavillo Historical Society (16,050)

Clayton – Guttenberg Public Library (105,951)

Clayton – McGregor Historical Museum (133,766)

Clayton – Monona Public Library (93,102)

Clinton – Clinton Public Library (111,408)

Crawford – Charter Oak (49,346)

Crawford – Norelius Community Library (132,469)

Crawford – Schleswig Public Library (39,711)

Dallas – Perry Iowa (231,828)

Delaware – Manchester Iowa Archive (144,956)

Dickinson – Dickinson County (234,350)

Dubuque – City of Dubuque (70,999)

Dubuque – The Witness (65,563)

Emmet – Estherville Public Library (478,993)

Fayette – Elgin Public Library (63,605)

Fayette – Fayette Public Library (66,273)

Fayette – Oelwein (366,580) (in-library access)

Fayette – The Collegian (13,814)

Fayette – West Union Community Library (131,029)

Floyd – Rockford Public Library (52,893)

Greene – Jefferson Public Library (156,775)

Grundy – Beaman Community Memorial Library

(5,231)

Grundy – Conrad Museum (1,372)

Grandy – Kling Memorial Library (121,196)

Grundy – Ostfriesen Heritage Society (17,699)

Guthrie – Bayard Public Library (45,088)

Guthrie – Mary Burnett Memorial Library (105,808)

Guthrie – Stuart Public Library (56,863)

Hamilton – Ellsworth Public Library (46,831)

Hamilton – Hamilton County (451,874)

Hancock – Hancock County (6,679)

Hardin – Ackley Public Library (42,719)

Hardin – Hardin County Iowa (574,755) (in-library

access)

Harrison – Missouri Valley Public Library (101,029)

(in-library access)

Henry – Winfield Public Library (56,713)

Howard – Howard Winnishiek-Cresco (87,805)

Humboldt – Humboldt County Genealogical Society

(25,663)

Ida – Battle Creek (29,034)

Ida – Ida Grove Public Library (113,822)

Iowa – Iowa County Genealogical (39,140) (in-

library access)

Iowa – Iowa County Iowa (301,952) (in-library

access)

Iowa – Williamsburg Iowa (301,952) (in-library

access)

Jasper – Monroe Public Library (28,274)

Johnson – Iowa City Public Library (231,023)

Johnson – Oxford Public Library (12,022)

Jones – Jones County Genealogical Society

(321,917)

Jones – Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library,

Monticello (139,104)

Keokuk – Hedrick Public Library (45,735)

Keokuk – North English (748,915)

Kossuth – Algona Public Library (216,139)

Kossuth – Kossuth County Newspapers (170,771)

Linn – Cedar Rapids Public Library (2,459,814)

Linn – Coe College (33,583)

Linn – Coggon Historical Society (14,404)

Linn – Cornell College (54,104)

Linn – Linn County Atlas (1,245)

Linn – Marion Public Library (153,711)

Linn – Mount Vernon Public Library (71,929)

Louisa – Mellinger Public Library (64,508)

Lucas – Chariton Public Library (118,522)

Lyon – Rock Rapids Public Library (113,016)

Madison – Earlham Echo (30,555)

Madison – Winterset Public Library (125,832)

Marion – Central College (34,216)

Marion – Marion County (37,106)

Marion – Pella Public Library (151,216)

Marshall – Gutekunst Public Library (64,881)

Marshall – Marshalltown Public Library (78,708)

Mills – Malvern Public Library (63,022)

Mills – The Silver City Historical Society (12,000)

Mitchell – Nissen Public Library (50,034)

Mitchell – Osage Public Library (31,016)

Monona – Mapleton Public Library (84,944)

Monona – Onawa Public Library (134,742)

Monroe – Monroe County Historical Society

(167,941)

Montgomery – Red Oak Community (173,648)

Montgomery – Stanton Historical Society (25,069)

Montgomery – Villisca Public Library (73,287)

O’Brien – General N. B. Baker Library (41,576)

O’Brien – Hartley Public Library (81,639)

O’Brien – O’Brien County Archives (77,685)

O’Brien – Paullina Public Library (61,820)

O’Brien – Sanborn Public Library (99,129)

Osceola – Sibley Public Library (124,842)

Page – Essex Lied Public Library (41,265)

Page – Lied Public Library (185,591)

Page – Shenandoah Public Library (261,691) (in-

library access)

Palo Alto – Graettinger Public Library (59,138)

Palo Alto – Palo Alto County (89,395)

Plymouth – Akron Public Library (61,590)

Plymouth – Kingsley Public Library (54,891)

Plymouth – LeMars Public Library (232,808)

Plymouth – Remsen Public Library (58,423)

Pocahontas – Laurens Public Library (76,167)

Pocahontas – Pocahontas Public Library (95,650)

Pocahontas – Rolfe Public Library (41,974)

Polk – Children and Families of Iowa (3,938)

Polk – Johnston Public Library (29,599)

Pottawattamie – Avoca Historical Society (13,543)

Pottawattamie – Botna Valley Genealogy Society

(6,821)

Pottawattamie – Walnut Public Library (50,370)

Ringgold – Tingley Vindicator (16,223)

Sac – Odebolt Public Library and Museum (133,771)

Scott – Catholic Messenger (77,175)

Scott – Scott County Library (131,851)

Sioux – Libraries of Sioux County (631,639)

Story – Ames Public Library (607,466)

Story – Bertha Bartlett Public Library (66,145)

Story – Nevada Iowa Archive (198,573)

Tama – Tama County (21,537)

Taylor – Lenox Public Library (44,665)

Wapello – Eddyville Public Library (49,246)

Warren – Warren County Historical Society (49,629)

Washington – Kalona Public Library (70,373)

Washington – Washington County Library

Association (805,594)

Wayne – Seymour Community Library (52,068)

Webster – Fort Dodge Public Library (188,906)

Winnebago – Lake Mills (44,107)

Winneshiek – Luther College (265,094)

Woodbury – Catholic Globe (27,183)

Woodbury – Morningside College (19,789)

Worth – Worth County Historical Society (8,426)

Wright – Clarion Public Library (98,806)

Wright – Eagle Grove Memorial Library (130,469)

Wright – Talbot Belmond Public Library (39,828)

(in-library access)

It is amazing to realize that through the efforts of Advantage Archives that 80 of Iowa’s 99 counties have newspapers available for free searching online!